We put down boric acid everywhere we thought they’d go, which is freaking everywhere, and used bait traps along with the obvious stuff like being intense about leaving anything edible out, and it slowly worked. We were used to the big palmetto bugs but the German cockroaches holy shit.

So boric acid comes as a powder, the roaches walk through it and ingest it when they groom themselves. That means if it gets wet, you gotta reapply. You put it where you know they’re going to walk through it, obvs. Put it down in a light layer. It’s pretty safe for people if you avoid countertops.

I’m sure you’ve tried so many things, so you’ve probably already done boric acid, but when we had an incursion of the awful little German ones that’s the one thing that actually worked, once and for all. It’s a bit messy and it took a while to make a dent but it did do the job.

(Yes, of COURSE I went down it. I may have made an… undignified noise.)

Ha, thanks! In this house we are intense about both Vincent Price and the Waffle House. Smothered covered and peppered, here.

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Actually if I remember that fic is an outlier because it has a blond Aiden - generally he’s darker skinned, roguish, curly hair, made up out of whole cloth by the sheer will of horny bitches. I love it so much.

Oh obviously, I have friends and then I have “friends I would spend a year murdering people to avenge” and let’s just say that’s two different groups of friends. I just think it’s hilarious that fandom has invented a whole Aiden with three words of skippable side quest to go on. From the ground up!

It’s so freaking good. Again, it managed to give me warm affectionate feelings for both Morvran AND Keira. Extra points for, if I remember right, featuring game-Lambert. I cannot with him as a hot redhead. I require angry rat-boy.

That thing is over a million words and you cannot imagine my unfettered joy to get to the end and realize she started adding to it again while I was reading it!

And just for funsies if you like a nice modern AU here’s the two of them retired and snarling at each other from their respective cabins, with dogs. I guess the older I get the more I like my traumatized boys old and busted.
archiveofourown.org/works/484246...

OKAY SO really you should read the whole mega-series which moves back and forth between a ton of people but starts with Meet Death Sitting - Iorveth is in a sub-series Peace Tied, and she’s still updating a Ciri bit that made me like Morvran? She even got me on team Keira. This is the big link.

I think this is actually a great example of NOT too “fellow kids”, though I may be too old to see it. It treats them with respect and expects them to understand why we have to have rules, I think it’s really good. Of course my library has incredibly dedicated teen librarians so I’m probably spoiled!

A few years ago when they all started wearing mom jeans again… And then maybe 2023? when I saw them all dolled up in their bodysuits - girl what you gonna do if you take somebody home? Imagine sensually undoing the snaps. Hope you’re not straight because the boys will never figure that one out.

I remember I begged and begged my mom to buy me a black and green outfit like that from Express? delighted at how retro it was while my mom was like ugh are you serious right now we sacrificed so you would never… and now I see what the girlies wear and I understand my mother on a molecular level.

That is also my mom’s pumpkin pie. She will very seriously tell you that it’s from the plain pumpkin, not the pie mix. With disdain in her voice.

I read such a good extended fanfic all about that, both of them stuck being part of these new governments and feeling very unsuited, as men who have known nothing but war, for peace and diplomacy (but who else is there to do it?)